Improvement in sofa-beds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOFa y JOSEPH 1:3.V HARLOW, OF PORTLAND, MAINE,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOWILLIAM A. JAGKMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOFA-BEDS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,1 55, datedSeptember 28,1875; application Jled March 3, 1875.

I new and useful Improvements in Sofa-Beds;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof,

which will enable Others skilled in the art to which it pertains t0 makeand use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

Figure l isa side elevation of my invention when closed to form a sofaor lounge 5' Fig. 2'is a top-plan view of my invention with the partsopened ont to form a bed. Fig. 3 is a side view of my invention when thesame is in the position shown in Fig. 2. Same letters show like parts.

The Object of my invention is to produce a convenient article offurniture Which may be used as a sofa or lounge, and by a change in therelative position of its parts may be used as a bed. A

My invention may be thus described: a shows the fixed or rigid part ofthe lounge. b shows the hinged part, which,when the de- .vice is to beused as a sofa, is turned over upon the part a. on the hinges c, asshown in Fig. l. The arm-rest. d', unlike those shown in most of thesofa-beds in use,`is rigidly connected to, and forms a part of. the hinged part b. e'shows two, arms hinged tothe heads of the parts at and b,as shown by the dott-ed lines in Fig. 2, and clearly shown in Fig. 3.Attached'to the foot of the lounge, and extending up to the ends of thearms e, is the canvas or sack f. The upper end of the canvas isattachedto a bar in any convenient manner (hooks and eyes being deemedpreferable,however) to a bar, g, which fits over the ends of the arms e,or it may, if desired, be provided with sockets into which the ends ofthe' arms will fit. The clothing is then laid upon this canvas or sackf, and the article is ready for use as a bed. When desired to form alounge the bar gis removed and placed upon the part a, the arms e turnedover upon the part-s a b of the device, and the part b turned up overand upon a, which operation leaves the different parts in the positionshown in Fig. l-that is to say, ready for use as a lounge.

A sofa-bed constructed as just described is cheap, durable, andconvenient.

I do not claim the head-rest shown in patent to H. S. Garter, No.156,131, March 5, 1874, which is-detachable at one end from the bed, andis capable of being turned on a pivot, so as to lie flat on` immovablepart of the body of the bed. The head-rest in my invention,

rigid arm-rest d, arms e, canvas f, and bar g,

as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim `the foregoing as my oWn-I affix my signaturein presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH B. HARLOW.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. JORDAN, GHARLEs E. CLIFFORD.

